TITO ACCLAIMED BY YUGOSLAV REDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 5

TITO ACCLAIMED BY YUGOSLAV REDS

(10 a.m.) BELGRADE, July 21. The Yugoslav news agency says that 2300 delegates acclaimed Marshal Tito when he arrived for the. opening of the fifth congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party in a hall decorated with busts and emblems of Lenin and Stalin. The congress elected to its board Marshal Tito and other Yugoslav Ministers whom the Cominform recently criticised.

Marshal Tito, in a marathon address, spoke right through the opening day of the congress.

Marshal Tito, up to the lunch-time recess, had spoken five hours. He resumed at 4 p.m. his review of the party’s activities since 1921. Shouts of "Tito, Hero Tito" lasted 10 minutes when the conference started. Every coffee house in Belgrade was jammed with people listening to Marshal Tito’s address over the radio.

Marshal Tito said: "Yugoslavia's working people and Communists will never forget that we must look for our protection towards the Soviet Union, the Communist party and its leader, the great Stalyin.”

Marshal Tito emphasised that the Yugoslavs in 1941 were the only people to answer Marshal Stalin’s call to oppose the Fascist invader.